minutes of ESC call ...

[Caolán McNamara]

* Present: Robinson, Stephan, Miklos, Lionel, Eike, David, Caolan,
Kendy, Bjoern, Eilidh

* FOSDEM:
  + Add abstracts to
  https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Events/Fosdem2014/talks
  + Target is short technical talks to squeeze as many of you as
possible
  into our limited time.
        
* Completed Action Items
  + mail out list of potentially obsolete branches (Michael)
  + create easy-hack to indentify good places for unit tests: (Bjoern)
    [ done & script is implemented, with output here:
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/RegressionHotspots
      and new easy-hack filed for creating new tests ]
  + design-team raising template concerns, address these if possible &
    push (Ahmad)
    [ re concerns: no objections on last design ]
  + point Cloph at bug-triager / credits script in dev-tools for release
    notes (Bjoern)
  + QA team / prioritise un-tagging unconfirmed/needinfo
   'regression' (Robinson)
      + 90 -> 45
        
* Dropped Action Items:
  + transition and automate api.libreoffice.org inside a VM for Cloph
  (Lionel)
    + Not on the scale of a week or two, migrate this to longer-term
    bugzilla issue

* Pending Action Items:
  + find better way to export from Coverity categories of non-security
    critical bugs (Caolan)
    + In progress. Works in theory, but in practice slow and due to
    network issues practical limit of just a few hundred
  + Include new C* font google replacements into vanilla install
    (Caolan)
  + New templates (Ahmad)
    + Template has to be hard-coded in code. Ideally as real documents.
      - Try hard-coding and look into a better more flexible long term
      solution.
  + setup infrastructure to build bibisect repos (Cloph / Bjoern /
    Norbert)
      + The ubuntu one is now up to date again, will be published in a
      few days, can use that until status of documentfoundation bibisect
      builds is clarified
  + produce a VM for the load / crash regressions (Cloph / Markus)
  + partition document test loads / run them on tinderboxen (Norbert)
  + produce a VM with callgrind metrics (Matus)
  + create script to auto-mail users list for each API Change commit
    (Bjoern/Stephan)
  + ask Florian for a minimal / simple solution for larger bug docs
    (Robinson)
      + Work in progress. Got a place to put them, but some teething
        problems.
  + get setup wrt. mobile app-store access (Cloph / Thorsten)
  + ask mobile app-authors wrt. freeze (Kendy)
      + not done
  + draw bugzilla migration threads together & propose funding to the
    board (Robinson)
      + Call tomorrow about this. Get more input.

* Threaded fastsaxparser (Matus)
  + actually fast
  + 'free' parsing / string allocation in a thread
  + many allocations / frees per element / attribute killed
  + 20 seconds to load -> 10 seconds oox filters
  + To merge after the call for 4.2.0

* FOSDEM dev-room talk roster roundup (Kendy)
  + Please submit talks for FOSDEM
  + We want to squeeze everyone in to the limited time we have, so 
  lots of technical short ones please.
  + Travel can covered by TDF
  + Where do we sent them ?
    Add your abstracts to

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Events/Fosdem2014/talks

* New Google C* font replacements / update (Caolan)
  + Now included in Fedora and RHEL
  + important for interoperability with MSOffice

* Filing good easy-hacks (Bjoern)
  + The best ones are explicitly created as easy hacks
    rather than convert an existing bug. Too much clutter.

  + Re-targetting existing bugs without a nice, readable
    subject / title is suboptimal.

* QA update (Robinson)
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +128   -104     (+24 overall)
     many thanks to the top five bug squashers:
       Thomas Arnhold        22
       Caolán McNamara        9
       Jorendc                8
       Maxim                  7
       mariosv                5

* QA stats:
* Open 4.2 MAB
  + 4/13 6/13 4/10 2/8 1/6 1/6 2/6 5/6 5/6 6/6 7/7 2/2
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65675

* Open 4.1 MAB
  + 20/103 18/100 17/99 15/96 14/93 12/91 14/91 17/89 15/85 15/81 13/77
8/68
     19%    18%    17%   16%   15%   13%   15%   19%   18%   19%   17%
12%
  +
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=60270&hide_resolved=1

* Open 4.0 MAB
  + 57/200 56/198 58/198 56/195 54/193 55/194 52/183 50/180 52/180
44/171
     29%    29%    29%    29%    28%    29%    28%    28%    29%    26%
  +
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=1

* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
  + 38/146 36/144 35/143 34/142 34/141 34/140 35/140 36/167 37/137
41/137
                + http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 382(-2) bugs open of 2083(+13) total
    * ~Component   count net *
           Writer - 113 (+3)
      Spreadsheet - 57 (+3)
      Libreoffice - 43 (-4)
     Presentation - 30 (-5)
          Crashes - 28 (-1)
         Database - 20 (-2)
          Drawing - 17 (+0)
          Borders - 16 (-1)
            BASIC -  4 (+0)
        Migration -  3 (+0)
  + http://bit.ly/15mM2Yn - for devs ( no NEEDINFO / UNCONFIRMED )
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=regression%2C%
20&keywords_type=allwords&resolution=---&query_format=advanced&product=LibreOffice&list_id=36764
  + Migration:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=43489&hide_resolved=1